Word: breadbasket
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tally sheets his statistical election picture quickly took shape. Willkie's strength was inland, in the breadbasket States. Wherever land touched sea, Roosevelt was strong. The New England vote was a triumph for him: Maine went Republican only narrowly, and the President's vote in New England was even larger than...
...carry only 440-lb. bombs; the Ju-88 top load was 3,960 lb. (against 10,000 Ib. for a Flying Fortress). But these types could come & go in such numbers that the psychological effect of heavy mass raiding was achieved. Also, they introduced the Göring "breadbasket"-a big bundle of mixed incendiaries and explosives. For bass notes a few larger Nazi planes unloaded devastating 4,000-lb land mines, lowered by parachute to make their descent slow and silent, give no warning. One of their delayed-action bombs damaged the U. S. Embassy...
...through. Milk, butter and cheese are scarce or nonexistent, for the Germans rule the great northwestern dairy area. No new stores of sugar from the occupied beet-sugar district around Lille are destined for Free France. Free France will eat none of this summer's harvest from the breadbasket of the northern plains. There is still tobacco in the Rhone Valley and Auvergne, but those shops in Provence that still have stocks also have queues outside, and in the Mediterranean departments few people any longer smoke. Gasoline in Free France is rationed to refugees going north...